I feel similarly about the footnotes. My own philosophy is to avoid them at all cost, and only include them if I absolutely cannot find a way to make the information flow with the text AND I can’t not include the information while serving whatever functions I’m trying to with the writing. It’s perhaps a matter of style, but given the high footnote to body percentage, I’d have preferred it if you used fewer footnotes.
Note: I had trouble reading this because of the formatting. Splitting into paragraphs would help significantly.
I feel similarly about the footnotes. My own philosophy is to avoid them at all cost, and only include them if I absolutely cannot find a way to make the information flow with the text AND I can’t not include the information while serving whatever functions I’m trying to with the writing. It’s perhaps a matter of style, but given the high footnote to body percentage, I’d have preferred it if you used fewer footnotes.
So is another way of summarizing this to say “we created self-help to help us optimize ourselves for the society we created”?